THE ART OF EASY CHOICE
/19'12''/
fragment - /3'15''/, Kolekcja CSW Znaki Czasu, Toruń
The Art of Choice
The Art of Easy Choice. The Art of Difficult Choice
This work is based on a dialogue of two different, though not remote realities.
The Art of Difficult Choice plays with film reality, in images, dubbings, multilingual texts. Its nature is based on a collection,
an inventory of human passions and facts taken out from film life.
It is intriguing and saturated, for such is the nature of cinema.
Hence everything is more true than in actual reality.
This particular private perspective is shown in The Art of Easy Choice.
Because The Art of Easy Choice is a collection of notes spanning five years of possessing a camera recording in mini DV.
Therefore in both collections there are shared “themes”, such as kisses, dancing, singing, eating, travels, children, animals etc.
There are also separate episodes assigned to one reality only, e.g. sex, shoot-outs (The Art of Difficult Choice).
The Art of Difficult Choice is seemingly more saturated and stunning, but as in a mirror it reflects its younger sister –
The Art of Easy Choice, perhaps more intriguing since it is certainly truer.
It is up to us to choose in which reality we will find the most complete expression of ourselves.
Perhaps their very blend, as well as the possibility of moving from one into the other (through image and sound) is the greatest asset of this work.
24 fragments:
- You will long for kisses
- You’ll think, that the dance
- Or maybe a cigarette
- You’ll hear the enticing chant from the Mulholland Drive
- Wine, yes wine will help you survive
- And surely you need to smoke some grass
- You will see familiar faces
- You’ll be surrounded by phantoms- electrifying images
- And then you’ll hear the phone ring
- You’ll cry, that that’s not it
- Or maybe a book
- Sex, yes sex
- The wedding, maybe not necessarily
- You will dive into talks
- And the children, there have to be children
- And you will see your reflection in the mirror
- You will want to play tube
- And then some gesture will remind you
- That the dog is your real Someone
- You’ll think about a distant trip
- Do a spasmodic run
- When you fall, strange phenomena will return
- Then somebody shoots to you
- In the last moment you’ll shout, that this needs to be noted down and you will long for kisses again
Izabella Gustowska, 2007
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The Art of Difficult Choice – 2 projections, 19'20''
The Art of Easy Choice – 2 projections, 19'20''
Life is a Story (green spheres) – 2 projections, 19'20''
150 objects (lightbox), 70 cm in diameter
Exhibition Life is a Story, National Museum, Poznań 2007
___________________________________________________________________________In The Art of Difficult Choice there were used fragments of films
(order of the used and changed fragments of films):
Dom latających sztyletów / House of Flying Daggers, Y. Zhang; Pół żartem pół serio / Some Like It Hot, B. Wilder; Nosferatu Wampir / Nosferatu the Vampyre, W. Herzog ; Przygody Mickey Mouse / Adventures of Mickey Mouse, W. Disney; Marlene, J. Vilsmaier, Casablanca, M. Curtiz; Amelia, J.P. Jeunet; Deszczowa piosenka / Singin' in the Rain, S. Donen, G. Kelly, La Strada / The Road, F. Fellini; Słodkie życie / La Dolce Vita, F. Fellini; Chicago, R. Marshall; Ginger i Fred / Ginger and Fred, F. Fellini; Piąty Element / The Fifth Element, L. Besson; Kawa i papierosy / Coffee and Cigarettes, J. Jarmusch, Pulp Fiction, Q. Tarantino; Requiem dla snu / Requiem for a Dream, D. Aronofsky; Kto się boi Wirginii Woolf / Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, M. Nichols; Blue Velvet, D. Lynch; 8 kobiet / 8 Women, F. Ozon; Mulholland Drive, D. Lynch; Przed zachodem słońca / Before Sunset, R. Linklater; I Bóg stworzył kobietę / And God Created Woman, R. Vadim; Między słowami / Lost in Translation, S. Coppola; Kontrolerzy / Kontroll, N. Antal, Kika, P. Almodóvar, Miasteczko Twin Peaks / Twin Peaks, D. Lynch; Kochankowie / The Lovers, L. Malle; 8 ½, F. Fellini; Szepty i krzyki / Cries and Whispers, I. Bergman; Piękność dnia / Belle de Jour, L. Bunuel; Matrix, A. Wachowski, L. Wachowski; Czerwona Róża / Rose Red, C. R. Baxley; Rozmowa / The Conversation, F. Coppola; Telefon / Phonebooth, J. Schumacher; Krąg / The Ring, G. Verbinski; Kobieta i mężczyzna / A Man and a Woman , C. Lelouch; Kiedy Harry poznał Sally / When Harry Met Sally, R. Reiner; Godziny / The Hours, S. Daldry; Drobne cwaniaczki / Small Time Crooks, Wszyscy mówią kocham cię / Everyone Says I Love You, W. Allen; Imię Róży / The Name of the Rose, J. J. Annaud; Pianistka / The Piano Teacher, M. Haneke; Nagi instynkt / Basic Instinct, P. Verhoeven; Moje wielkie greckie wesele / My Big Fat Greek Wedding, J. Zwick, Frida, J. Taymor; Panna młoda w żałobie / The Bride Wore Black, F. Truffaut; Mystic pizza, D. Petrie; Absolwent / The Graduate, M. Nichols, Mężczyźni wolą blondynki / Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, H. Hawks; Rejs / The Cruise, M.Piwowski; Piknik pod wiszącą skałą / Picnic at Hanging Rock, P. Weir; Władca much / Lord of the Flies, H. Hook; Buenas Vista Social Club, W.Wenders; Fortepian / The Piano, J. Campion; Ostatni cesarz / The Last Emperor, B. Bertolucci; Windą na szafot / Lift to the Scaffold, L. Malle; Fitzcarraldo, W. Herzog; Spaleni słońcem / Burnt by the Sun, N. Michałkow; Gilda, H. Widor; Psy i koty / Cats & Dogs, L. Gutermann; Ptaki / Birds, A. Hitchcock; 80 dni dookoła świata / Around the World in 80 Days, M. Anderson; Britannic, B. Trenchard-Smith; Pożegnanie z Afryką /Out of Africa,
S. Pollack; Północ, północny zachód / North by Northwest, A. Hitchcock; Biegnij Lola biegnij / Run Lola Run, T. Tykwer; Terminal, S. Spielberg; Gorączka złota / The Gold Rush
Ch. Chaplin; Delicatessen, J.P. Jeunet, M. Caro; College, J. W. Horne; Rybka zwana Wandą / A Fish Called Wanda, J. Cleese, Ch. Crichton oraz 11 ukrytych epizodów mojego autorstwa / and 11 hidden episodes made by the artist.
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editing: Adam Draber